8th Day in the NICU

Little one is doing good. They put him on nitric oxide.

Per Wikipedia:Use in Pediatric Intensive CareNitric Oxide/Oxygen blends are used in critical care to promote capillary and pulmonary dilation to treat Primary Pulmonary Hypertension in neonatal patients[11][12] post meconium aspiration and related to birth defect. These are often a last-resort gas mixture before the use of ECMO.NO therapy has the potential to significantly increase the quality of life and in some cases save the lives of infants at risk for pulmonary vascular disease. [13]

They had him on 20 and now have reduced to 5.1. It is a slow weaning process but he has been reacting so much better to this. He no longer fights the respirator and allows the machines to do the work for him so he can work on growing. We are looking at a few more days then he will be on just the occilator again and eventually back to a regualr respirator. His oxygen has also been lowered to 50 so that means he is actually using the O2 in his body. Blood gases are looking good too.Since being taken off of the phototherapy he is showing his inquisitive side and looks around as best he can to see what's going on around him. His color looks good. Just overall things are looking good. 1 week down, at least 11 weeks to go.